Union organiser joins in on Pyne attacks

A major trade union organiser has joined the attacks against Queensland MP Rob Pyne after his resignation from Labor, declaring "we don't like rats".

Cairns MP Rob Pyne, who resigned from the Labor party last week amid claims of intimidation and bullying, told parliament on Tuesday his former colleagues had called him a "traitor, a megalomaniac and an LNP dog".

But that continued on Wednesday, with Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg reading to parliament an expletive-laden post from Electrical Trades Union organiser Michael Haire.

In the post, viewed by AAP, Mr Haire said the ETU gave Mr Pyne his seat and would take it away.

"We don't like rats. We don't like bulls**t," Mr Haire wrote.

"We don't like busting our backsides only to be s**t on by f**kwits with short memories."

Mr Pyne said he was hated because he spoke the truth.

"Obviously I am speaking the truth to attract such vitriol from the ETU," he posted to Facebook while tagging Mr Haire and Housing Minister Mick de Brenni.

The opposition used Mr Haire's post to further its attacks on the government, particularly over claims Mr de Brenni and Deputy Premier Jackie Trad had bullied Mr Pyne when he was a Labor MP.

"This is a government of union thugs, by union thugs, for union thugs," Mr Springborg said.

Meanwhile, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk refused to condemn her MPs for their attacks on Mr Pyne following his resignation, speaking only in general terms when asked about the issue.

"I think all MPs should behave in a responsible and respectable manner to all members of parliament," she told reporters.

Ms Palaszczuk also refused to directly address claims Ms Trad and Mr de Brenni had bullied Mr Pyne.

"I expect the highest standards of my team and I expect the highest standards across all members of parliament," she said as Ms Trad stood behind her at a news conference.

The premier later walked off without answering when asked whether she'd spoken to any of the MPs who'd attacked Mr Pyne.

Former Queensland Labor state secretary Anthony Chisholm also took to social media on Wednesday to criticise Mr Pyne.

"I haven't found one party member who agrees with Rob Pyne & what he did," Mr Chisholm, now a federal Labor Senate candidate, tweeted.

"For him to claim he is the true Labor person is a sick joke."

Mr Pyne told parliament on Tuesday he'd adhered more to the party's values and that of the wider labour movement than his former colleagues, many of whom were using Labor as a platform for career advancement.